Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Addiction and Community Safety Response Committee on June 27, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.
2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 8
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study behavioral health.
What it does
The synopsis the Legislative Assembly published with the bill.
Digest: The Act tells OHA to study mental health. (Flesch Readability Score: 82.3). Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study behavioral health. Directs the authority to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health not later than September 15, 2026. Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
Sponsors
Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.
In the Senate
Sponsor
Its course
March 6 to June 27, 2025, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.
Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.
Every action3 actions on 2 days
In the SenateMar 6 to Jun 27 · stopped113 days
Waiting for a committeeMar 6 to Mar 60 days
Addiction and Community Safety ResponseMar 6 to Jun 27 · stopped113 days
Text
Each version as the Legislative Assembly printed it.
l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.
What happened
In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislative Assembly published it is below.
In the Senate Mar 6 – Jun 27
- Mar 6Introduced
- Sent to Addiction and Community Safety Response
- Jun 27Died when the session ended
All 3 actions, as published
- Mar 6Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.Senate
- Mar 6Referred to Addiction and Community Safety Response.Senate
- Jun 27In committee upon adjournment.Senate